Manuscript Group 353 FINE ARTS COLLECTION
[ca. 1823-1953]
.4 cubic feet
These documents were originally donated to the Fine Arts Section of the State
Museum of Pennsylvania and have since been transferred to the State Archives because
they fell outside the scope of the museum collections:
1. Engraving of Major General Thomas Kane, "Bucktail" Regiment
P.V., 1861-1865, President, Boart of Charities, 1869 (1 folder), 1953. {#353m.1}
[Holdings]
2. Photographs of Harrisburg State Hospital, [undated] (15 items) {#353m.2}
3. Mounted Map of Pennsylvania, Canals to Railroads, 1833, from Tanner's
Universal Atlas, 15" x 12" accession #67.114.10 (1 item) {#353m.3}
[Holdings]
4. Reproduction of Lindstrom's Map of "New Sweden or the Swede's River
in the West Indies" (Delaware River) with translation and present-day
place names, 29 1/2" x 16 1/2" [undated] (2 items) {#353m.4}
[Holdings]
5. Flat Globe of the World, by International Globe Company, New York, copyright
1901, 1905, 28" circular (2 items) {#353m.5} [Holdings]
6. Reproduction of drawing of Fort Augusta, locating the fort along the
Susquehanna River, 21" x 17", [undated] (1 item) {#353m.6} [Holdings]
7. Graduation Diploma of Caroline Marsh from Moravian Seminary, Bethlehem,
16 June 1909, mounted, 14" x 17" (1 item) {#353m.7} [Holdings]
8. Certificate of Silver Medal given to the State of Pennsylvania "for
Distinguished Services" at the Panama Pacific International Exposition,
4 December 1915, mounted, 22" x 16" (1 item) {#353m.8} [Holdings]
9. Declaration adopted at a Conference of Governors and former Governors,
17 May 1918 in Philadelphia for Permanent Peace and presented to Governor
Martin G. Brumbaugh, mounted, 20" x 24" (1 item) {#353m.9} [Holdings]
10. Declaration of Independence, illuminated by Arthur Szyk, 1950, 25"
x 19" (print size 19" x 15"), copyright 1953 by Julia Szyk,
presented by the Tudor Foundation (1 item) {#353m.10} [Holdings]
11. Print of the Magna Carta of 1215, [undated], mounted, 23" x 31
1/2" (1 item) {#353m.11} [Holdings]
12. Framed printed copy of the Declaration of Independence, [ca. 1823],
printed by William Stone. Frame is reputedly made from wood from "Old
Ironsides" (U.S.S. Constitution). {#353m.12} [Holdings]
